One of the advantages of being an oldster who still subscribes to a newspaper — four of them, actually! — is having the opportunity to scan obituaries. It’s a bit morbid. On the sad side, I’ve discovered long-ago friends among…
Since he was inaugurated, Biden has spent about $4 trillion through legislation and executive orders. Biden’s reckless overspending is the principal reason our nation is now suffering an inflation rate of over 8 percent, which isn’t — as Biden said…
Women’s rights have continued to deteriorate in Afghanistan since the country was recaptured in August 2021 after the United States’ disastrous withdrawal. Women’s mobility, access to employment, and education have been severely curtailed, and the burqa has been mandated across…
Nine months after President Biden withdrew U.S. forces from Afghanistan — which happened after nearly twenty years of war there — we seem to have already unlearned all the lessons of that war and the debacle Biden created in quitting…
The group Open Doors USA released its latest World Watch report last week, which tracks the countries that are the worst offenders of Christian persecution. There is a new top persecutor, which took over from longtime number one North Korea. The…
Joe Biden may find that Leon Trotsky’s observation that, “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you” to be true regarding Afghanistan. Mr. Biden believed in August of last year that he had ended the…
Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan on August 15, there has been very little news about the hundreds of American civilians abandoned by President Joe Biden to the mercies of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. One report last week said…
Reinvigorated by the Biden administration’s catastrophic foreign policy failures, the global Islamist movement is now emboldened to a degree not seen since the Soviet departure from Afghanistan in 1989. This new triumphalism was on display on October 2 when a…
The greatest tragedy of Afghanistan is not that the United States was defeated but that the Afghan government collapsed. America will recover from this retreat from empire, but “failed states” are a much more serious problem. Regimes are crumbling in…